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The decision to erect the Statue of Carlo
Barberini in the Campi doglio (the Captains Salon) was
followed by splendid rites in the nearby church of Santa Maria in
Aracoeli, the setting for a monumental catafalque by
Bernini. For the same church, on the interior wall of
the facade, the sculptor designed the splendid Funeral
Memorial in 1633 in which, under that of the reigning
Pontiff, the ecclesia joins with a Virtue to honour the
illustrious family name. A simliar sign of gratitude was expressed by the city
on the 13th October,1635, ordering the erection of the
Statue of Urban VIII (Salon of the Horatii and Curiatii) a
real prototype of its order, completed in '40. The Head of
Medusa, may have been commissioned by a member of the Senese family in
collaboration with the Barberini's maybe the cardinal
Alessandro who died in Rome in 1657.
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